Mike Stevens
Western United States & Canada Division Director
Seattle, Washington
Mike Stevens Mike serves as The Nature Conservancy’s Western United States & Canada Division Director. © Mike Stevens/TNC
Areas of Expertise
conservation, sustainable agriculture, field science
Biography
Over the past 25 years, Mike has worked in a range of conservation leadership roles seeking to benefit nature and people and has been part of multiple teams and coalitions recognized for their innovation and impact.
Currently, Mike serves as The Nature Conservancy’s Western United States & Canada Division Director. In this capacity, he supports teams working across Canada, Alaska and the western U.S. on a range of issues including climate change, salmon and buffalo restoration, sagebrush and forest health, river and watershed restoration, and federal lands and policy. Mike has been deeply engaged in cross-boundary work in philanthropy, climate action and Indigenous-led conservation. He is committed to supporting a diverse and talented next generation of leaders and growing an inclusive and powerful environmental movement.
Before his role as division director, Mike served as TNC’s Washington state director for more than a decade. During this time, he led the team in several key accomplishments including the enactment of one of the world’s most robust climate and environmental justice policy and funding frameworks and progress in land and water conservation in the Olympic Rainforest, the Emerald Edge, the Cascade Mountains and Puget Sound.
Mike’s professional experience includes being president of Lava Lake Land & Livestock in Idaho, a company that received multiple national awards for their partnerships and work to advance landscape-scale conservation, sustainable agriculture and coexistence with wolves. He also spent five years with TNC in New Hampshire and Idaho as a scientist and preserve manager. Early in his career, Mike worked as a field scientist and mountaineering and natural history instructor in the western U.S. and Alaska.
Mike holds an M.S. from the Field Naturalist Program at the University of Vermont, where he was a Switzer Environmental Fellow, and a B.A. in biology from Middlebury College.
Mike lives in Seattle. He was born and grew up in Mallorca, Spain, is fluent in Spanish and has worked and traveled globally. He is passionate about time with family and friends, growing food, reading, birding, and skiing and running in the mountains.